5-The Adventure begins

26 January
1911 – On the Terra Nova at Cape Evans Campbell writes....

"Very
fine weather. The party came back for the rest of the load then after tea
Captain Scott said goodbye to all hands. The party left. Before this he gave me
my sailing instructions and turned over the command to me. A Nly breeze had set
a lot of pack ice into the bay during the day so we didn’t sail that night
"

The
story of Campbell’s Northern Party starts on the 27 January 1911 when, as the
Eastern party they set sail from Hut Point in theTerra
Novato explore the Ice Barrier and the
area in and around King Edward V11 Land in the east.This party, part of the Terra Nova Expedition
but separate from Scott’s South Pole party, consisted of 6 men with supplies to
provide for anover-winteringand two summer sledging seasons.

The Terra
Nova, nowunder the command of
Victor Campbell left Hutt Point, first landing Griffith Taylor, Wright, Debenham,
and Evans (the Western Party) at Butter Point. Here Priestly found the depot
laid in the summer of 1908-09 by Shackleton’s Western Party of which he was a
member. He took some of his clothes that were left their two years earlier ‘and a couple of years later I was to be very
glad of that addition to my outfit.’ [2]Leaving Butter Point they sailed for Cape Evans
to disembark Ponting, Nelson, and Demitri.Now, on the 28 January, just twentyfour days after landing in Antarctica
Campbell’s group started their own expedition.Once around the top of Ross Island they followed close to the Barrier
charting the tall ice cliffs as they sailed eastward.While close to the Barrier they witnessed sections of barrier collapsing into the sea with
‘thunder like roars and clouds of spray’.

Lastest Addition

20 January 2012- Boomerang Glacier climb posted on the 100th anniversary of the actual climb on 20 January 1912.19 January 2012-Boomerang to Boomerang posted today ready for the posting tomorrow of the Boomerang Glacier climb by Priestley, Abbott, and Browning on the 100th anniversary.

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